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shockingly terrible or horrible
- Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.Chapter 14 — The Hound of the Baskervilles (40% in)
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